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“Emiko?” Ari asked. “Huh, yeah?” “You haven't picked a group yet, wanna join mine?” Ari asked. “No thanks, I work better alone,” Emiko said and left the room, the teacher didn’t care because they have permission to leave whenever. “Mr Popo? Are we allowed to work alone?” a student asked. “No, I’ll talk to Emiko when they return to class.” Emiko has always been this way, it started when they were taken from their home when they were little and were raised in an orphanage that didn’t allow much sound. Many of the children would leave with scar...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: The following story contains talk of death and fighting⚠ Ava Heifer is a young Kelpie girl, her friend Freya Aliz is a unicorn who was sent out to seek and lure people to their family homes. Kelpies eat rotting bodies when unicorns eat the souls of virgins. Creepy, yes but the girls don’t actually do their jobs, they just go off and hang out all day saying they couldn’t get anyone. One morning their parents met up and decided that they needed to send the kids to a different village. “We need to send them away, if they “can’...
Nyx is a young villain who is working with the largest shop in the death market, the deadliest illegal market, her job is to kill other shop owners and dissect them for selling. She is terrified of doing this cause she is only 15 and her parents were killers making her fear them. When the shop owner killed them he didn’t know of her existence he took her and raised her for ten years. He had a soft spot for her because she was nothing like her parents he didn’t punish her when she messed up. She was the punisher. Her villain name is Punisher,...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: The following story has talked of drug abuse, neglect, and hospital. You have been warned⚠ Rinkyu has lived in the hospital her whole life she fell ill shortly after birth. Rinkyu is the only daughter of her family. Rinkyu has six biological siblings and nine half-siblings. All of the younger kids were raised by Bes, the oldest of all of the kids. The mother was always at work while the father was either working or having an affair. Rinkyu was known as the only Dragon of the family also, the other kids were either wolves o...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: The following story contains Sexual violence, Mental health, Substance abuse, Physical violence, gore, or abuse, Suicide or self-harm ⚠ Oliver Green and Aoki Shin have been dating for three years and Aokifinally moved to Brighton to live with Oliver. They had met at a wreck sight, helped people get out of the area, pulled people out of the cars with care, and checked with the shops around if everything and everyone was ok. The first responders came and finished up. They asked what their names were so they could be paid for ...
⚠ TRIGGER WARNING: There is some cursing and talk of death in the following story.⚠ Wynter is Phil’s, a crow, and Kristan, the goddess of Death, youngest kid. She has three older biological siblings; Will, Dave, and Tom. Her adopted older sibling; Toby. She has witnessed the death of two of them, imprisonment of one, and other attacks, along with Toby’s webbing. She along with her father have damaged wings. Her father’s wing was damaged when Will exploded his own village, her wing was damaged when she was young she fell and her wing fell in...
⚠TRIGGER WARNING: This story contains talk of Physical violence, gore, abuse, Suicide, cussing, and self-harm. You have been warned, the following story has sensitive topics!⚠ Valda Combs, a young teen girl in a city of those who have special powers making them known as ‘Penny’s’ strange name right but it’s because when powers first showed up they were considered useless and gross. As they evolved to be what the world adores, many people are born without and grow without these powers. When you are born if you are a Penny you have a ...
In the city named Reflection, there are people who have powers and they allow them to have the two classes. High Class; those with trained power. Middle Class; those that obtain power but don’t use nor control it. Low Class; those without power. Echo someone who was born into a High-Class family who doesn’t have the power making her just dead weight within her family. Echo grew up like every high-class family till she was five and didn’t have her power yet, after a few doctor’s visits it was confirmed she was a powerless girl. From then on o...
The world always seems to be pushing their opinions onto others causing them to be insecure making a lot of problems within the mind. Some will spend their time and money on surgeries, or products to make them more to the vision society has. That’s how I view the world, that’s why I hide what I look like when I make my videos and vlogs. Not many people that I interact with often know what I look like. I always see comments about people saying that I need to show my face or that it’s stupid that I hide. I wear a mask that isn’t seeable to the...
Submitted to Contest #96
The cold brisk wind was blowing outside, it was the start of summer and the mornings were still cold. The guest room had nothing inside, the family of the house were liars and had done people’s dirty work for years, the ones that lived in that room had run away to a place far and safe for themselves. Ten years before that, Jackalope, a young girl at the time, had been living in the house never going outside due to her ‘Curse’. She was a mutant; she had a large mixture of animals and monsters within her DNA. Her mother wouldn’t care if she w...
Submitted to Contest #68
The sun was shining on the lake, Scarlet was sitting on the cliff while watching the sunrise. When Bandit came and sat down next to Scarlet. “It’s beautiful isn’t beasty?” Bandit asked.“It truly is” Scarlet answered.The two have been secretly dating for two years now Scarlets pack doesn’t know that she was sneaking out or that she was soon going to have a canid pup. Scarlet’s pack was running through the woods to find her they believed that one of the other packs had taken her. The pack had split up so they could find her, she was one o...
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